Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy", 3.6.89-94

Daalder, Joost

Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy", 3.6.89-94

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Date

1990

Authors

Daalder, Joost

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Heldref Publications

Abstract

Lines III.vi.89-94 are here quoted from the sole surviving copy of "The Spanish Tragedy" (1592), now in the British Library (shelf-mark C.34.d.7). They have proved puzzling to modern editors, and a possible "emendation" has been mentioned. Daalder asserts, on the contrary, that the lines make perfect sense as they stand, provided we realize that the punctuation marks serve to indicate rhetorical pauses rather than syntactical breaks.

Keywords

Renaissance poetry

Citation

Daalder, Joost 1990. Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy", III.vi.89-94. 'The Explicator', vol.48, no.3, 175-176.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2328/316

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